The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-01
THE TALLY SHEET CONSPIRACY.
What Some of the County Papers Are Saying
About the Case and the Indicted Men.
A SHAMELESS ATTACK.

! Lafayette Journals: The Indianapolis Sentinel,
the State organ of the Democracy, which made
tie indecent and outrageous assault on the SUI
/ preme bench of the State, in keeping with its
record rushes to the defense of the conspirators,
ana Ia most shameless article attacks Judge
WOODS Tor his charge to the jury. More forciole
evidence of the guilt of the accused than this at
tack on 1urist, whose honor is unquestioned,
whose ability is of the very highest order. and
whose pubic and private life is spotless could
not De produced. And it is not be wondered
at That the Sentinel is not pleased with Judge
Woodss bic exposition of all the points in the
case. but It's attack IS none the less shameful
THE INNOCENT VICTIMS.
Marion Chronicle: What a william that N an
must have been who forged the Indianapolis
election returns and brought mountains of
trouble on Messrs Saioon-keepers Coy and Matt
Ter and a half dozen other lights in the Demo-
cratic party of Marion county. The mutilated
returns whereby Democratic criminal iudge-a
most important Office to the gang of which Coy
is the Ieader-was counted in part of the
evidence that crime was committed; but the
Bernhamer, Counselman and other defendants
that they know nothing of the forgeries is good
Democratic evidence that they innocent
and prosecuted men.
JASON B. BROWNS GREATEST EFFORT
Seymour Republicans: The speech of Hon.
Jason b. Brown, at the Coy trial, yesterday, is
said to be s'the ablest effort of his life" This is
a mistake. Mr.. Brown made his greatest
speeches in this city and Brownstown in 1864,
when he advising his friends that the
was failure and wholly wrong, and that they
should desert and come home. True. these
speeches nearly cost this eloquent rebel his life,
he had DO eecreted about the county and
finally piloted away for awhile to escape being
mobbed by loyal neighbor but that little cir
cumstance did not initiate against the oratory
or ardor of our distinguished townsman.
THE CoNsPIRAToRs ARE BRANDED.
Kokomo Gazette-Tribune: Tally-sheet forg-
cries are made odious in Indiana by the impor-
tant exposure of the late crime at Indianapolis.
The men accused Of that crime are smrched be-
You'd the reach of any jury's verdict. Public
opinion has branded the conspirators. Public
scorn will follow them through life They will
be execrated beyond ordinary thieves in much
as the theft of sovereignty transceEds grand
larceny. The people of Indiana need not wait
for the verdict of the jury to settle into the
viction that suffrage is more sacred than it
was last November.
SHOWS IT'S ANIMUS.
Anderson Herald: damn their cowardly
sous,' shouted the Indianapolis Sentinel last
winter, when the Democratic judges of the SUI
preme Court handed down decision adverse to
the party in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS contest
The same term of condemnation would have
been hurled at Judge Woods of the United States
Court had the Sentinel dared have done
SO. The editorial in this mornings issue, while
doubt. aimed at Judge Woods, and 1t shows the
contemplate partisan spirit that governs the
Sentinel
WAS GIVEN BACK SEAT
Columbus Republican,: We failed to observe
that Tomtit Bailey has been assigned place to
speak for the government although he is as
sistant district attorney He exhausted his
meagre store of oratorical ability last winter
when he got up in his place in the Senate and
eulogized the defendants as the best men in the
Democratic party. 1t was just as we'll to give
the little Tomtit back seat in the prosecution
of the conspiracy cases as he couldn't hit any Ok
the criminals a lick without hurting himself.
CONDEMNED BY THE PUBLIC.
Greencastle Banner: It should not be for
gotten that the Democratic leaders of Indiana,
have, from the beginning, given their encour-
agement and support to the election conspira-
tors of Marion county, and this may prevent a
verdict of guilty from being rendered against
those who clearly guilty. But however the
jury mayid in this the consprators have
already been tried at the bar of public opinion
and unani mOusly condemned. They are load
that no party can carry before the public
DISTRIBUTING THE INFAMY.
Terre Haute Express 1t is said the new In
sane hospital at Evansville is TO be under tbs
superin tendency of one of the physicians at I'll
indianapolis hospital whose chief claim to I
place is in the fact that he a leading witnt~
for the Harrison trustees before the legislative
committees. Perhaps the idea is to distribute
the imfamy of the Indianapolis management to
the new hospitals in the State and thus relieve
the pressure on the central institution.
ELECTRIC EEL.
Kokomo Gazette Tribune: Pleading t
cause of the consplrators In the federa
court at Indianapolis, Jason Brown
claimed: Chow my heart did leap for joy, my
whole frame thrill with electricity. when VIM;
Fl. English told you what Sim Coy was"
Jason is real electro-dynamo. If he should
hear model characterized his battery
would discharge itself in q phenomenal way.
WHAT THE TRIAL HAS REVEALED.
Corydon Republicans The investigation has
revealed one of the boldest and most dastardly
attempts to thwart the will of the people
in Indiana any other State. LIZ
such crimes go UNPUBLISHED, elections by the
people in the future will only be useless farees.